Curtain and shade fixture



M. BELL CURTAIN AND SHADE FIXTURE March 14, 1933.

Filed Aug. 17, 1931 llllll Patented Mar. 14, 1933 UNITED STATES MIKE BELL, OF KANSAS CITY, KANSAS CURTAIN AND SHADE FIXTURE Application filed August 17, 1931.

The object of this, my present invention, is the provision of a fixture for window casings for supporting. curtains and drapery carrying poles therein, and the primary object of the invention is the provision of a fixture in the end of a bracket which can be easily and quickly attached to the top of a window casing, regardless of the shape of themolding constituting the same without inflicting any injury to the casing, but which will be sustained in a rigid position thereon to effective ly support the curtain and draperies.

To the attainment of the foregoing, the invention consists in the improvement as hereinafter described and definitely claimed.

Figure 1 is a perspective view illustrating the invention.

Figure 2 is a sectional View approximately on the line 22 of Figure 1.

Figure 3 is a sectional view through the improvement and the top or head of the window casing, illustrating a slightly different form of the device.

The plate 29, comprising the fixture disclosed by Figures 1 and 2, has a lateral extension provided with the outstanding tooth carrying arms 30 for the curtain or drapery pole or other support. The upper edge of the plate 29 is provided with spaced penetrating teeth 31 to be received in the grooved or channeled molding 32 and to pierce the upper outstanding flange 33 thereof. The reduced extension 34 of the plate 29 is offset at its juncture with the laterally extending portion thereof and is integrally formed with a transversely arranged strap 35. The inner edge of the part 34 is formed with a bracket 36 for the pintles of a shade roller and above the offset portion 37 the plate 29 is provided with an elongated rectangular opening 38. The offset portion is provided with a slot and through this slot and likewise through the strap 35 there is passed an impinging plate 40. The lower edge of the plate 40 is provided with teeth 41 to engage with the lower flange or ledge 42 on the molding 32. The plate 29, in a line with the lower wall provided by the opening 38, is formed with an outstanding lip or ledge 43, and the upper end of the impinging plate 40 is centrally Serial No. 557,634.

formed with an outstanding ear 44. Re: ceived through openings in the ears 43 and -14 there are oppositely threaded bolts 45, re-

spectively. These bolts are received in the oppositely threaded bore of a tubular memher or sleeve 46. The member 46 is provided with a central opening 47. The bolts 45 are held from turning on the ears 43 and 44, preferably'by forming the same with squared portions adjacent their heads and by providing squared openings through the ears 43 and 44. A suitable instrument inserted through the opening 47 on the sleeve 46 permits of the turning of the sleeve 46 to move the ears toward or away from each other, and consequently to bring the teeth on the plate 40 and 29 into impinging engagement with the molding 32 or out of engagement therewith. The fixture may be arranged atany desired place on the molding and securely sustained thereon. p

In Figure 3- the top member 48 of the roller casing has its upper edge provided with a nose molding portion 49 and the body plate 50 of the fixture has its upper edge bent '75 outwardly and from thence upwardly and inwardly to afford the same with a substantially cross sectionally U-shaped portion 51 that receives the nose 49 therein, and the top member of the part 50 has its inner edge formed with impinging teeth 52. The body plate 50 below the shade supporting brackets and, of course, to one side of said supporting brackets, is slitted and bent to afford the same with a hook 53 to engage one end of a coiled compression spring 54, the second end of the spring being engaged by the hooked portion that provides the inner wall of the finger grip 55 and the body plate 56 of a slidable hook member. The lower edge of the plate 56 is bent at an inward angle and has its extremity formed with impinging teeth 57 to engage with the under face of the molding 48 for the casing. The body of the hook is arranged against the outer face of the plate 50 and passes through a guide flange 58 provided therefor by the said plate 50. The plate at its lower and reduced end carries the notched shade roller pintle receiving bracket 59.

It is believed the construction and advantages of my improvement will be understood and appreciated by those skilled in the art to which such invention relates when the foregoing description has been carefully read in connection with the accompanying drawing without further detailed description. While I have illustrated satisfactory embodiments of my invention as the same now appear to me it is to be understood that I do not wish to be restricted to the precise details set forth and, therefore, hold myself entitled to make such changes therefrom as fairly fall within the scope of what I claim.

What I claim is A combination drapery and curtain bracket, comprising a plate which has an offset portion at one of its edges and from one of its ends, and the transverse shoulder afiorded by said offset portion having a rectangular opening theretlirough, a strap arranged transversely of the offset portion and having angle ends secured to the plate, said plate adjacent to the shoulder being provided with a longitudinally arranged elongated slot, an ear projecting from the plate at the end of the slot next to the shoulder, a second and smaller plate guided through the opening in the shoulder and through the strap of the first named plate, said smaller plate having an offset ear that freely passes through the elongated slot in the first named plate and adjustable means between and connected to the ears of the respective plates for longitudinally adjusting the plates with respect to each other.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature.

MIKE BELL. 

